Awareness Pointers and Invitations by Jeremy
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ON THE ADDICTION TO "JUST GETTING BY"
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For generations, there has been the very devastating and destructive addiction to alcohol. Did you know that at one time there was absolutely no hope for its relief? Many lives were completely ruined because individuals could not unhook themselves from its grip. When the spiritual support group was created, individuals were then more able to break out of certain death, and personal and family ruin. The positive effect on our society for this shift is immense. There is no way to quantify the benefits to the business environment alone. Productive members of society exist where there once were none.
While there are still people that are heavily addicted to alcohol and other drugs many people do not know of their own addictions. Denial is a clever construct in the human psyche.
While many know about the harmful effects that go along with looking for happiness in a bottle, fewer know about the massive addiction to a flattened attitude about life. You might also call this the addiction to "just getting by?" Survival is naturally the first priority on the list. The basic minimum is food and shelter. Of course, there are many perspectives that add to this list. Some add more than others. The abundance of books that are focused on creating happiness through wealth and prosperity abound. While these ideas play a very important role in our lives, what is often missed is the intention to have a real and true realization of who and what you really are at your very core. After all, is this not where all of your peace and joy truly comes from?
Many people that are involved in spiritual support groups know that staying in touch with the group is vital to their program. When rationalizations disguised as reasons keeps one from participation it is seen simply as resistance to growth. By staying in the group one is infected with reminders and inspiring accounts of changing lives. It is in this way that the very crucial step of applying ones self deliberately to their own program takes hold. The vision of a new self is held onto with determination and assistance from the group is vital.
I often use the term, "being just a human." This statement represents a rampant tone of mediocrity in human society and to take it on means that you are doomed to being less than inspired. Just human attitudes abound and this is why it takes a great deal of intentional focus to actualize and exemplify who what you really are.
Because so many people are so programmed they are often applying themselves to just fitting into a culture of values that are simply not serving. I have found that creating and participating in an intentional spiritual community is more fulfilling than a trip to the Caribbean in the winter time. In fact, I know that it is more important than anything else that I can do. It is an outward expression of what I know is the most important thing about me. This most important thing is that I am spirit in form.
Relief from heavy addictions have benefited society as a whole immensely. If we can relieve ourselves from the addiction to "just getting by" attitudes in our little micro-community the power of shift is bound to create effects that are simply immense.
Take some time to align yourself to the meaning behind this brief essay. Intend to be more of what you are right now and while you are at it include others in your process. And, of course you are definitely invited to the events that are offered by me on the events page of this web site.
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CONNECTING AND SEEING CONNECTION
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There are many ways to connect to spirit. Some are traditional and others are not. They are all to be appreciated and honored for their place and for their usefulness. Personally, I still use many of them to include, Buddhist techniques, Yoga and Reiki to name just a few. I am writing this as a means to inquire the actual usefulness of any way. Did you know that many have found it useful to lessen the identity to their favored technique, method or metaphysical map? When is it time to put something like this down and how is it done? If the directive is to recognize the very sublime and uplifting spirit within and abide in its' essence, then what is the most universal way to express how we do this?
In order to strike a chord in those who might enjoy a mutual alignment and fellowship, I feel called to express how remarkably simple and available ones connection to spirit really is. This begins with asking oneself questions like...
"What does it mean to connect to spirit?"
"What if you can't be disconnected?"
"What if you have never been separate?"
I am introducing a path that questions the whole notion of path all together. Furthermore it questions the whole process of connecting. Why try to connect what is already totally connected?
It can become apparent that the presumption that you have to connect is a preoccupation that stages the experience of suffering. This meaning that any experience that isn't surrender like, can actually amount to suffering. This means that if you are willing to surrender your affection for the gathering process and the technique practicing, then what you are trying to get to can emerge right here in the now. It is in this way that a weighty world of personal notions and perceptions drops off and there you are abiding in the experience of the very freedom that you seek.
In each of the events that I organize it has become a precedent to find a real and lasting inner answer to this style of inquiry. It is optimal for each participant to find this in themselves. While this is very important, it is also helpful to borrow and hear from the great wisdom's of both current and ancient times. Adyashanti, Eckhart Tolle and Lao Tzu are three of my recent favorites.
As I feel called to create and facilitate group discussions, I am also inviting others on a parallel path of sorts. In honor of our birthright in the sublime simplicity of source, the path that I am offering paradoxically is one that challenges the whole notion of "the path" all together. If your directive is to awaken then I am suggesting that you become ready to see through your affections for the way to get there. The difficult thing for the human mind is that it wants to cover up what is real and this is another very subtle and clever way.
For me using a commitment like ongoing classes and groups helps to check in my attitude and my complications. All of which I see as in the way of the sublime nature that is always here and always available.
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THE OPPORTUNITY TO BRING THE LIGHT THAT YOU ARE
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Once again it is time to advocate an alignment to the sublime and everlasting spirit within. When we say that there is this divineward process and we mention that it is within then what is the role of another workshop or showing up to another event? Indeed this seems to be an outward movement?
When do you finally begin to have an abiding and everlasting sense of your greater nature?
Of course it is often expressed that it happens when it is time. "When the acorn falls from the tree." When is it time for you to really have enough of the wheel of human hunger? When is it time to turn on the powerful directive to be what you are right now? What you are is the sublime and everlasting spirit. You can't get it from anyone. You can't get it from another workshop. The only perfect technique is to behold your own divine nature with all of your heart and soul at this very moment.
This is not to say that there is not a place for stretching the body, giving it a nurturing energy hit, helping it to be still, having opportunity for creative expression and all of the other fun things that spirit can do. This is to say that it might be time for you to simply behold your greater nature and give up the sense of desperation that so many are swallowed up in. So many are swallowed up in a process of getting taught another thing. While this is not really a problem it can be the only directive and this tends to propel one to ignore the wealth of source energy that is right here. It is right here as you read this text. It is right here as you walk down the street. It is right here as you are going to work. It is right here when you show up to your next event and it is right here when you don't. It is always here.
What power it is to set this up as an intention. Show up with this knowing. As you are heading to an event intend to be in alignment with you the everlasting sublime nature before, during and after. Give the event no more power than you. Show up as the light, share it, allow it to grow into conscious awareness and be in it as you leave. This is not something you learn. It is something that grows into recognition.
As this text is a prompt so to are the events that I offer. Please feel free to show up to any event that is offered as the light that you are.
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"I AM ALWAYS AT HOME IN THE UNIVERSE"
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You might agree that all that you seek in a relationship, money, success or anything else ultimately represents a reaching out or a seeking of the divine. You long to feel at home in the universe in whatever way that makes sense to you at any given time.
Feeling at home can become a never ending quest as circumstances are in a constant flux and if you are like most of us humans you are turning things around in your head in pursuits of making it all seem just right.
There are specialists that can offer counsel and insight that helps you to reach into your uniquely individuated nature. This is helpful because you are then able to contact a knowing at your core that seems to miraculously respond and create in life. After all the spirit within knows the impulse of the divine. The divine that is everywhere and is behind everything that unfolds in the physical.
Now. it also helps to keep it in the forefront that the unlimited intelligence is always completely available. It also helps to recognize the mind sets that cover up this intelligence. In particular it has been helpful to me to recognize that the sense that I am at home in the universe comes from my perception. As I work with this I am challenging the impulse to seek through the relative world and relative circumstances. While there is nothing wrong with the creative moment where ones life seems to be coming together in a harmonious way there is also the sense that what I really am is so magnificent and abiding. It's reservoir of peace is so full that I do not need circumstances to be in any particular way.
Be aware and catch the mind set that sets you up to feel whole only after you achieve what the mind thinks is the perfect life. Mentally realign to you as the source and feel at home no matter what the day brings.
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A POINTER TO THE SUBLIME
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If I ask you to see things from a new point of view I might seem friendly enough to be granted such and opportunity. After all there are all too few beings that are evolved enough to be willing to see things from another angle.
There are even fewer who would investigate the world of multi-views to such a degree that all points of view become at best approximations for the very remarkable but ultimately slippery process of the human mind.
For me this journey of the human mind has lead me to an intimate awareness of it's traps and it's hall of mirror qualities. I have found profound benefit in keeping my affections for a freedom that the human mind cannot conceive of. In order to reap the benefits of such a freedom I have realized that I have to want it more than any preferred relative condition. I have to want it more than things like comfort, security, survival and validation. If the desire is not strong I will be right back into the dissatisfaction that the human mind is so clever in reproducing.
To be in repor with and have an abiding reality in what some call spiritual knowing it helps to be in a community setting of individuals who inquire and benefit from asking the big questions.
A big question that I invite you to ask is... "What would this NOW be like if I were to drop all of my beliefs about it and how it should be?"
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BENEFITTING THE WORLD BY SURRENDERING IT
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I know that you are all living your lives and dancing the dance that you need to and of course this is always the way it is supposed to be. Reminders are also a powerful part of your life dance and I have been reminding myself to put who and what I am on the forefront. Abiding in the sacred self has effects on your life, your friends and the world.
Just working with these words is beneficial. If you dare to spend real time in class as a devotional response to the impulse to grow spiritually you are also increasing the likelihood that you will be of benefit.
The other matter is that the world, friends and your life is surrendered enough to be a bit on the back burner. This is often called space consciousness. When one works with this one is also ready for a divine paradox that says that helping others is good and also surrendering them to the divine is good. If we can be okay with these sort of paradoxes then we are truly evolving.